Will the upheaval in which the world finds itself ever come to an end? The answer is Yes!, as youll see in these continuing excerpts from The Storm Before the Calm, in which youll discover the role you can play in the times just ahead.... Looking to the French Steiner held that the French Revolution’s slogan, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, expressed in an unconscious way the distinct needs of the three social spheres: - Liberty in cultural life, - Equality in a democratic political life, and - Solidarity in economic life. According to Steiner, these values, each one applied to its proper social realm, would tend to keep the cultural, economic, and political realms from merging inappropriately; and allow these realms and their respective values to check, balance, and correct one another. The result would be a society-wide separation of powers. Steiner argued that increased autonomy for the three spheres would not eliminate their mutual influence, but would cause that influence to be exerted in a more healthy and legitimate manner, because the increased separation would prevent any one of the three spheres from dominating. (Source for most of the writing above: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_threefolding; Re-use of material Licensing notice: This work is released under CC-BY-SA. Here is the URL to the text of the license: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) Advice not taken, predictions come true Because society never adopted Steiner’s model, each of those three spheres has, in one place or another on our planet during the ensuing years, not been prevented from dominating. His prediction of this was uncannily prescient. Lack of autonomy had tended to make each sphere merge in a servile or domineering way with the others. Among the various kinds of macro-social imbalance Steiner predicted, all of which have come to pass, were three major types: - Theocracy, in which the cultural sphere (in the form of a religious impulse) dominates the economic and political spheres. (Iran?) - State communism and state socialism, in which the state (political sphere) dominates the other two spheres. (Russia and its satellite socialist states?) - Corporate capitalism, in which the economic sphere dominates the other two spheres. (The United States of America?) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Check out the website that has been specially created to allow the conversation that has been started here to continue. Go to TheGlobalConversation and see what you think.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 13:00:01 +0000
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